The style of the image is termed Dance Macabre which originated in the Middle Ages and meant to symbolize the universality of death. It was common during outbreaks of the Black Death and often associated with it. But hey, according to some of you I never graduated from HS and don't have teeth. But back to the caption. Chicago, two triple shootings of YBM's with a third kill confirmed for the weekend. Fifteen more wounded. Just another "typical" weekend in Obama City.

The Purple Sow said,Congratulations on your Wikipedia success re Dance Macabre, btw.=================================You'd have to recognize the image and its symbolism before you could do a wiki search on it you blithering nitwit.

Field wrote,QLB, I would call u a one trick pony, but that wouldn't be fair to the pony. His one trick is at least a good one.================================Try to teach you something you didn't know and you get resentful. So very "typical." You are such an ungrateful people. Even money says you didn't the origin of the image you posted. Sad really.

QLB

PS: By the way how it's going with you now that the popo from the Vonderrit Myers shooting is cleared and the Michael Brown case is rapidly going "south?"

The new plan cancellations will be sent out after the elections! The delay has been made unilaterally by the Administration because it involves millions of people who are about to lose their insurance that they hoped to keep but which Obama has determined is inferior.

Obama Waiting for Midterm to Name Attorney General

President Barack Obama does not plan to announce his choice for attorney general before the November elections, shielding the nomination from the midterm election politics while setting up a potential year-end showdown with the lame duck Senate.

The Army has completed its investigation into Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s abandonment of his Afghan post but will not release the report until after the midterm elections lest it embarrass the Obama administration.

The Purple wrote,Well yes, I guess if you live in a place where recognising something as obvious as a Dance Macabre image is a big deal and sign of an advanced education - then I suppose that's right.================================Please. You've never even heard of Dance Macabre before I mentioned it. Once again you prove the shuck and jive is alive and well in the Black community. So typical.

"Watt is just honest enough to present it straight up. You can draw your own conclusions as to what it means, but it is indisputable that there has been no global warming over the last 18 years."

It's totally disputable you fucking moron, I've already posted a graph that blows that theory clean out of the water, but of course you are too stupid to understand the consequences of what they are seeing.

Now I have to decide if I can by arsed to explain a fucking simple graph to someone as stupid as you. Let me think about it.

Claiming that global warming stopped in 1997, ignores 90% of global warming. This claim is made by people who look only at global surface air temperature which represents just 3% of global warming.

(Even if we look only at surface air temperature, the case that the world has not warmed is very weak. Ignoring long term trends and just looking at the record-breakers, 1998 wasn't the hottest year ever. Different reports show that, overall, 2005 was hotter than 1998. What's more, globally, the hottest 12-month period ever recorded was from June 2009 to May 2010.)

But all that is irrelevant anyway because of their enormous size and heat storing capacity, warming of the seas represents 90% of global warming.

Here is a second graph that demonstrates just how massively the oceans have warmed since 1997.

The Purple Sow said,QLB thinks I'm as much an ill-informed and uncultured peasant as he is.================================No, I pretty much know you're uncultured. Just think if you didn't live in a White Culture surrounded by White inventions? You'd be inhabiting a mud hut with a bone in your nose, cooking one of your mother in laws for dinner. You're such an ungrateful people.

Field wrote,Even you wouldn't be dumb enough to take that bet.===============================I did say even money. Cute cartoon the pic came from though. There are simply better and more classic examples of the genre so your knowledge of the subject is somewhat suspect.BTW you didn't comment on the apparent downfall of the Myers and now Brown shooting cases. Looks like both officers will be cleared. You don't strike me as a guy willing to incite a riot just to get a new TV.

"No, I pretty much know you're uncultured. Just think if you didn't live in a White Culture surrounded by White inventions? You'd be inhabiting a mud hut with a bone in your nose, cooking one of your mother in laws for dinner. You're such an ungrateful people."

Ahhhhh bless.

I mean there's all things I could point out, we were all Africans once, black people had the world's most advanced civilisations for thousands of years, black people invented maths, medicine, astronomy and most sciences, Mozart stole tunes off a black composer, a black man is considered the father of string theory, but what would be the point?

The Purple Cow said... Claiming that global warming stopped in 1997, ignores 90% of global warming. This claim is made by people who look only at global surface air temperature which represents just 3% of global warming. -----

No, claiming that global warming stopped in 1997 merely points out the fact that there has been no warming in the last 18 years. This despite global CO2 emissions continuing to grow. This is a fact, as you know.

I understand you have trouble accepting this, because this is not just an objective review of the available data, but rather it is an article of Faith to you.

You can worship whatever nature-god you want, and you can believe that the Sin of Carbon will bring down your god's wrath in the form of boiling oceans or whatever, but you are no better than some Islamic extremist if you try to use the government to enforce your beliefs.

You are sad, frustrated little man with, in your own words, a "miserable life". Perhaps if you stopped obsessing on non-existent problems like Global Warming and paid a little more attention to your family, you'd find some satisfaction in your existence.

"I mean there's all things I could point out, we were all Africans once, black people had the world's most advanced civilisations for thousands of years, black people invented maths, medicine, astronomy and most sciences, Mozart stole tunes off a black composer, a black man is considered the father of string theory, but what would be the point?"

What available data other than Watts' site? All other data shows warming since 1997. 1998 was warmer than 97 and 05 was one of the warmest years on record. 2014 is lining up to be the warmest year on record. How is that no warming? I notice you're still posting as anon.

PilotX said... What available data other than Watts' site? All other data shows warming since 1997. 1998 was warmer than 97 and 05 was one of the warmest years on record. 2014 is lining up to be the warmest year on record. How is that no warming? I notice you're still posting as anon.----

I notice you're still posting as a moron.

Yes, you can pick individual years or runs of years since 1997 where there has been warming, but there is no warming trend for the 18 year period running up to the present time.

What Watt has done is to determine how long back one can go and show no warming trend. This is done by plotting the RSS satellite data straight from the RSS website.

Using this data, the most accurate available, you can now go back 18 years with no discernible warming.

It's really not that hard to understand.

If you go back 30 years, there is a warming trend. Whether or not there is a positive or negative trend will always depend on the time span you pick.

The Global Warming theory says that increasing man-made CO2 is warming up the atmosphere. Alarmist organizations like the IPCC have used models to grossly overstate the amount of warming that is occurring.

The point of Watts analysis is to show that the actual observed warming has been much less, and that it has been zero for the past 18 years.

There is even a name for this period among climatologists, "the Great Pause". It is considered an anomaly, but it just keeps going, and going, and going.

This should not be a threat to a scientist, but it is apparently to Alarmists.

The Purple Sow wrote,I mean there's all things I could point out, we were all Africans once, black people had the world's most advanced civilisations for thousands of years, black people invented maths, medicine, astronomy and most sciences, Mozart stole tunes off a black composer, a black man is considered the father of string theory, but what would be the point?===============================Wow. Any more fantasies? No wonder Blacks are the most deluded people in the world. So what happened? Did Colonel Sanders, heroin and malt liquor bring everything to a halt? It must have been one hell of a fall. Let me guess. YT is somehow to blame. Did the mother ship miss it's orbit and somehow got sidetracked to Jupiter? Geez, you're not only stupid but you're insane to boot.

We have no clue what advanced levels of CO2 will do to the atmosphere. Much heating takes place in the oceans and we are already seeing warmer temps at both poles. There is no "theory" as you are mistakenly using the general use of the term not the scientific.

"There is even a name for this period among climatologists, "the Great Pause". It is considered an anomaly, but it just keeps going, and going, and going."

We are actually warming. Do you understand 2014 is on track to be the warmest year on record? The current trend is warmer temperatures. The 2000's are warmer than the 90's which were warmer than the 80's. Do you see a trend?

"Thanks in large part to the record-setting El Niño of 1997–98, the year 1998 was the warmest year, globally, in the 20th century. Since 2001 the global trend has been relatively flat (see graph). However, temperatures continue to run warmer than in previous decades. The global average from 2000–09 exceeds the average for 1990–99, which in turn was warmer than 1980–89. And the average for 2010–12 topped the 2000–09 average."

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